From a media release:
TD Toronto Jazz Festival
The Free Shows!
June 23 - July 1, 2012
TORONTO - The TD Toronto Jazz Festival strives to make music available to as many listeners as possible, encouraging people to expand their musical horizons and try a taste of something new. This
year, the Festival is proud to present more than 50 free
concerts at four outdoor venues, where listeners can bask in
the summer sun while listening to a world of jazz sounds.
In addition to free live concerts to bring music to the masses, the TD Toronto Jazz Festival also offers music lovers a chance to get up close and personal with some of this year's performers at daily live interview sessions hosted at the Festival’s heart at Nathan Phillips Square . The hour-long sessions, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the outdoor stage, will be hosted by the Festival's former Artistic Director Jim Galloway and current Artistic Director Josh Grossman. Avid fans and curious concert-goers alike will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with a different performer each day and learn more about each artist’s career in jazz, their musical process, and what it is that drives them.
TD Toronto Jazz Festival
The Free Shows!
June 23 - July 1, 2012
TORONTO - The TD Toronto Jazz Festival strives to make music available to as many listeners as possible, encouraging people to expand their musical horizons and try a taste of something new. This
year, the Festival is proud to present more than 50 free
concerts at four outdoor venues, where listeners can bask in
the summer sun while listening to a world of jazz sounds.
The stages are spread throughout the city, with a
north-end stage at the Shops at Don Mills, two stages in the
Historic Distillery District, and daily Afterwork Concerts at
Nathan Phillips
Square . Though the artists all
fall under the jazz umbrella, their individual sounds vary
greatly, offering everything from stomping Klezmer beats
(Lemon Bucket Orkestra) and lilting Latin rhythms (Eliana
Cuevas Ensemble) to funky horn dance tunes (Get The Blessing)
and crooning jazz vocals (Sophia Perlman / Adrean Farrugia
Duo).
In addition to free live concerts to bring music to the masses, the TD Toronto Jazz Festival also offers music lovers a chance to get up close and personal with some of this year's performers at daily live interview sessions hosted at the Festival’s heart at Nathan Phillips Square . The hour-long sessions, from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the outdoor stage, will be hosted by the Festival's former Artistic Director Jim Galloway and current Artistic Director Josh Grossman. Avid fans and curious concert-goers alike will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with a different performer each day and learn more about each artist’s career in jazz, their musical process, and what it is that drives them.
Date
|
Host
|
Artist
|
Saturday, June 23
|
Jim Galloway
|
Houston Person (Canadian Jazz Quartet with
Houston
Person)
|
Sunday, June 24
|
Jim Galloway
|
William Carn (Carn Davidson 9)
|
Monday, June 25
|
Jim Galloway
|
Roberta Gambarini
|
Tuesday, June 26
|
Jim Galloway
|
TBC
|
Wednesday, June 27
|
Jim Galloway
|
John Medeski (
Spectrum Road )
|
Thursday, June 28
|
Josh Grossman
|
Gretchen Parlato
|
Friday, June 29
|
Josh Grossman
|
David Braid (David Braid Sextet)
|
Saturday, June 30
|
Josh Grossman
|
Gord Sheard (Gord Sheard’s Brazilian Jazz
Experience)
|
Sunday, July 1
|
Josh Grossman
|
Norman Marshall Villeneuve (Norman
Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message Quartet)
|
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